Scrap Book: Wisdom from Whitney Port, Book Marc by Marc Jacobs and the Return of Batwoman

Whitney Port, star of MTV's The City, will be writing an advice book due out in 2011 called True Whit, for It Books. Port says she decided to write the book for young women who want to "start out in style"—with advice on how to get rid of puffy eyes and dress for a date—because "being a twenty-something can be a difficult phase." Especially when you're blonde, leggy, and SoCal gorgeous. And at only 25, Port, ever the entrepreneur, looks like she's leaving plenty of room for a follow-up. [People]

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Last week, Racked learned that Marc Jacobs will be expanding his West Village empire with a sixth store: this time a bookstore cleverly named—wait for it—Book Marc. It's been years since Jacobs began amassing real estate in the neighborhood, trailblazing a high end retail movement just like the one he started on Melrose Place. Book Marc will be taking over the space vacated by Biography Books, an over 20-year veteran of the area that recently relocated to 266 Bleeker, near 7th Ave, and changed its name to BookBook. After bringing some modern glam to the neighborhood that was once home to Theodore Dreiser, Jack Kerouac and Norman Mailer, it looks like Jacobs wants to preserve some of its literary flare too. Here's hoping he puts the same stylish sparkle into books that he put into the once bookish cardigan. [Racked]

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DC Comics will be giving Batwoman her own comic series later this year. The character first appeared in a 1956 issue of Detective Comics as Kathy Kane (her secret identity has since been renamed Kate Kane). She was introduced as Batman's love interest as part of DC's response to Fredric Werthan's anti-comic book tome Seduction of the Innocent, where he claimed that Batman and Robin were gay lovers. In an appropriate twist, Kane was reintroduced in the 2006 limited series 52, and then again to Detective Comics, as a lesbian—making her new Batwoman series the first major comic publication with a gay woman in the title role. The Detective arch, which explored Kane's discharge from the military for being gay, won a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comic Book, and we think the Dark Dame can expect many more to come. [NY Times]